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Dec 07, 2024
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ART 221 - Watercolor Painting 1: Theory and Elements Credits: 3 Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Description: This course examines the fundamental theories, techniques and processes utilized in watercolor and water-based media. In addition, students study the elements watercolor artists incorporated into their published works of art.
Prerequisites: ART 120 or Consent of department Corequisites: None. Recommended: None.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Humanities This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements. This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: Winter, Spring, Fall Check Course Availability
Course Competencies
- Explain how watercolor and water-based media works of art evoke a response from the viewer.
- Determine how watercolor and water-based media paintings can function within society.
- Compare watercolor and water-based media paintings to other art forms.
- Explain how a watercolor and water-based media artist utilizes layers of color and value to create form and atmospheric perspective.
- Investigate which watercolor and water-based media artists utilize experimental methods and materials.
- Explain how an artist would construct a watercolor and water-based media painting from direct observation that records the effect of light on natural surfaces.
- Research different theories of watercolor and water-based media painting within established Art History sources.
- Construct a watercolor and water-based media painting employing the white of the paper as the lightest value and moving progressively to the darker values.
- Explain why published watercolor and water-based media artists use washes, masking and glazing techniques.
- Compare and contrast how water media behaves on different types of surfaces.
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